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I have a rat. At first it was in my garage. Now it's in the ceiling over my bedroom.

I have a space where I never repaired the drywall after a pipe started leaking and I guess he used that to go up in to the ceiling and now he can't find his way out. I have two stories, so he's trapped between the first and second floors - right above my bedroom and below the kids' play room. I have no access to that space without cutting through the drywall.

There's nothing quite like waking up in the middle of the night to the sounds of a varmint scrabbling and squeaking right over your head.

I've got traps set out all around the garage, including what I hope is his only way out. But if he never goes back that way, I guess I'll end up with a dead rat in my ceiling.
 
DocZaius said:
I have a rat. At first it was in my garage. Now it's in the ceiling over my bedroom.

I have a space where I never repaired the drywall after a pipe started leaking and I guess he used that to go up in to the ceiling and now he can't find his way out. I have two stories, so he's trapped between the first and second floors - right above my bedroom and below the kids' play room. I have no access to that space without cutting through the drywall.

There's nothing quite like waking up in the middle of the night to the sounds of a varmint scrabbling and squeaking right over your head.

I've got traps set out all around the garage, including what I hope is his only way out. But if he never goes back that way, I guess I'll end up with a dead rat in my ceiling.
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We got some rats in our attic years ago. And they made it down into the walls. Wound up having to call an exterminator. Cost like $700 but it was well worth it. 1st thing he did was seal the entire exterior of the house so they couldn't get out and nothing else could get in. Then he set traps. He came back a few times and actually used a vacuum to suck up the ones in the wall.
 
A rat vacuum? Never would have thought of that.

My big fear is cutting a hole in the drywall and then the rat escapes into my bedroom. I don't think my wife would ever forgive me.

Still not sure how he got into the garage in the first place - I usually keep the door closed unless I'm working on something. But I know that's where he came from because I actually saw him in there.
 
No noise from the rat last night and I had trouble sleeping so I'm pretty sure I would have heard him. My traps in the garage were empty and untriggered. So he either found another way out or he died of dehydration/starvation.
 
Juggs said:
I wouldn't hold your breath on it just dying of dehydration/starvation :icon-lol:
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Well yeah I'm sure he can gnaw on wood or eat some bugs or something, but he can't live that way forever. If he found a way out of the house, great! Just hope he doesn't come back in.
 
I already have 2 cats and one of them is actually a pretty good hunter. He's killed rats outside the house before and left their bodies as gifts for us by the front door. This one rat is just trapped in a a place where we can't get to him.
 
One of my wife's old cats (before we were married) would just watch mice run across the floor of her old apartment and not give a fuck. It depends.

Wife reported she heard scratching early this morning, so I guess he's not gone.
 
After a few days of hearing some activity in the ceiling (right above my head as I'm trying to sleep, which freaks me out just a little), I went into the garage this morning and found one of my rat traps is... missing.

Just gone. I didn't have time to check the whole garage, but it wasn't anywhere nearby. I'm hopeful that the rat is still trapped somewhere in the garage and hasn't managed to escape. I doubt he'd be able to drag the trap back up into the ceiling
 
Juggs said:
You didn't place kill traps? Fuck those live traps for rodens :icon-lol:
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Give me some credit. I used these:

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But if it doesn't break the critter's neck, I can see a leg or a tail getting caught. Then he carries off the trap and maybe dies with it still attached or manages to escape - alive but wounded.
 
Juggs said:
:icon-lol: Gotcha.

Possible I guess...I mean, if the whole thing is missing, something had to drag it off. Don't have a cat out there do ya?
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No, I haven't let the cats into the garage since I set out the traps. And we keep the garage door closed so it's got to be somewhere in there. Alive or dead, who knows?
 
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